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Bokeh multi_line and HoverTool

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phygeeks
phygeeks

The following is the same question that I asked at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32975709/bokeh-multi-line-and-hovertool.

In Bokeh 0.10.0 we can use HoverTool for lines. But can we use it for multi_line? For example, when running the following code,

from bokeh.models import ColumnDataSource
from bokeh.models import HoverTool
from bokeh.plotting import figure, output_file, show

x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
ys = [[6, 7, 2, 4, 5], [5, 4, 2, 7, 6]]

hover = HoverTool(
tooltips=[
("(x,y)", “($x, $y)”),
(“label”, “@label”),
]
)

output_file(“test_bokeh.html”, title=“bokeh feature test”)

p = figure(title=‘figure’, x_axis_label=‘x’, y_axis_label=‘y’, tools=[hover])
line_source = ColumnDataSource({
‘x’: x,
‘y’: x,
‘label’: [‘single line’] * 5,
})
p.line(‘x’, ‘x’, source=line_source)
multi_line_source = ColumnDataSource({
‘xs’: [x, x],
‘ys’: ys,
‘label’: [‘line 0’, ‘line_1’],
‘color’: [‘red’, ‘blue’],
})
p.multi_line(‘xs’, ‘ys’, color=‘color’, source=multi_line_source)

show(p)

``

It correctly displays a tooltip for the line plot but nothing for the
multi_line plot. Am I doing something wrong, or is HoverTool not implemented for multi_line?

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Bryan
Bryan

Not yet, that is still an open feature requests. To support hovering there would need to be a _hit point method implemented for this file:

  https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/bokehjs/src/coffee/renderer/glyph/multi_line.coffee

That would return the right sort of index information about which line was hit by the mouse cursor. Would be happy to help any new contributors get started if they were interested in looking into a PR for this.

Bryan

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On Oct 6, 2015, at 12:13 PM, phygeeks@gmail.com wrote:

The following is the same question that I asked at python - Bokeh multi_line and HoverTool - Stack Overflow.

In Bokeh 0.10.0 we can use HoverTool for lines. But can we use it for multi_line? For example, when running the following code,

from bokeh.models import ColumnDataSource
from bokeh.models import HoverTool
from bokeh.plotting import figure, output_file, show

x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
ys = [[6, 7, 2, 4, 5], [5, 4, 2, 7, 6]]

hover = HoverTool(
tooltips=[
("(x,y)", "($x, $y)"),
("label", "@label"),
]
)

output_file("test_bokeh.html", title="bokeh feature test")

p = figure(title='figure', x_axis_label='x', y_axis_label='y', tools=[hover])
line_source = ColumnDataSource({
'x': x,
'y': x,
'label': ['single line'] * 5,
})
p.line('x', 'x', source=line_source)
multi_line_source = ColumnDataSource({
'xs': [x, x],
'ys': ys,
'label': ['line 0', 'line_1'],
'color': ['red', 'blue'],
})
p.multi_line('xs', 'ys', color='color', source=multi_line_source)

show(p)

It correctly displays a tooltip for the line plot but nothing for the multi_line plot. Am I doing something wrong, or is HoverTool not implemented for multi_line?

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